Blissing out on homestyle dehydrated bananas

With another bumper crop of over 150 homegrown bananas on our hands, it was time to experiment with our new Excalibur dehydrator!

We sliced some of the bananas about ½cm thick, as the booklet that came with the dehydrator recommended...

And 11 hours later they had been transformed into yummy super sweet treats!

We love to be able to really sink our teeth into scrumptious dried bananas, so we also cut quite a lot into quarters...

And they 24 hours later they were ready for enjoying! The only problem is they taste sooo good, it’s going to be hard to make them last more than 24 hours on the shelf!

Comments

[Liesel]

Oh yes, chewy dried bananas, that is a happy place! Almost as good as the choc-coated frozen bananas at Coffs Harbour in the 80s, lol. Can I be rude and ask what a dehydrator costs? Love dried mushrooms but they are pricey, and it might pay for itself that way.

[HappyEarth]

Hi Liesel, they are pretty expensive....ours is worth $500 which we were lucky enough to win in a competition :)

[Sue]

Have to be so much nicer than the ones you buy that are covered in oil first!

[Darren (Green Change)]

Liesel, you could build a DIY solar dehydrator. Here are a couple of the better designs I've got bookmarked for when I get the time to take on a new project:

http://ecohearth.com/eco-zine/food-and-garden/650-building-a-solar-powered-food-dehydrator-.html
http://www.rootsimple.com/2008/10/build-solar-dehydrator.html

[Zara]

They wouldn't last long at our place.
You already asked my first question about cost, so my others were about how much power the dehydrator uses and how much noise it creates when on?

Thanks, Zara

[SweetDickD]

may I ask the model number, etc as I am interested in purchasing a dehydrator but am totally new to it all.
Thanks from San Francisco CA

[serendipity2000]

We're hoping for bananas next year and yep, 150 would be pretty nice. I've dried them before in my Ezidri and they've worked really well apart from not lasting anywhere near long enough. Best to hide the jars! I'll be checking our Darren's link to the solar dehydrator. That sounds excellent.